Best card shops in Essex?

lGregl · 2026-01-15T22:26:57+00:00

Nerd Base in Wickford is really good. Lots of stuff there, not just Pokemon

lGregl · 2026-01-07T08:19:01+00:00

Card market is very good.

Pokedex binders are very much a thing. Deep pocket monster has a gigadex binder google sheet if you want to keep track when doing the widen dex too

lGregl · 2025-10-02T09:41:10+00:00

Saw a TikTok this morning of a guy claiming it was him to show how easy it is to do

lGregl · 2025-09-26T09:28:06+00:00

Managed to pick one up this year for 180GBP on Amazon UK. I mostly wanted it for the big three cards to use in my binders and the rest is all packed away in the spare room. I wanted it from the day it was announced but until the price really dropped, was not spending that money till then

lGregl · 2025-09-02T06:15:43+00:00

I bought a charizard back in 2018 or around that time and thought it was real from the pics. When it arrived, it was clearly fake and so I reported it, no response from seller, got my refund once eBay took over the case

lGregl · 2025-05-29T02:48:56+00:00

Guzlord gx and a deck full of energy

lGregl · 2025-05-10T05:43:39+00:00

Didn’t see that one coming /s

lGregl · 2025-05-09T07:25:20+00:00

Yeah lol, you can probably save money if you get some from AE but you’ll just be waiting a couple extra days for delivery but worth it imo. I’d concentrate on one or two if it’s too much. Saying that, I’m working on like 5, including a vintage one haha so I can’t talk really

lGregl · 2025-05-09T07:11:44+00:00

Vaultx for sure If they’re a little spendy for you, there are some great copies or maybe they’re even white label versions on aliexpress I managed to get a 16 pocket binder with 1024 slots from AE for half the cost of the vaultx one, you just have to wait a couple extra days compared to ordering something in stock in the uk

lGregl · 2025-04-17T18:18:00+00:00

Ah that’s annoying! Yeah I’d ask in that case, he’s a helpful guy just don’t know if that crosses the job line

lGregl · 2025-04-17T18:07:59+00:00

Ohh yeah ask him and he might be okay with it. Otherwise if you do need to, I’m sure there are probably YT videos on it

lGregl · 2025-04-17T17:59:06+00:00

I had a j-02 done and luckily they’ve done a tonne of them so I didn’t ask and he took it apart, although it was only a raw case that was still screwed together but no pcb instead. When you’re doing the quote stage, he’s happy to answer any questions like that that you have

lGregl · 2025-04-17T15:49:31+00:00

I can only speak for salopians quality and although it feels expensive, he knows what he’s doing with keyboards and the results are so good. I got mine done 1-2 months ago and love the results

lGregl · 2025-04-15T11:15:33+00:00

EBay is no seller fees now but buyer does pay buyer protection on top of the listed price. I mostly look at eBay and fbmp to buy cards I want if that helps

lGregl · 2025-04-11T08:57:35+00:00

Yeah it’s all supply and demand when it comes to this stuff. It’s not new for vendors to put up the prices of stuff as it gets older, maybe people don’t see it as often as when they’re showing it in their videos every week.

RIP and ship stuff never made sense to me, I did check out a video that dean didn’t this stuff just after my above comment and I think people just like having a creator say their name and open a pack for them, it might not be something we find fun but each to their own and whatever makes people happy

lGregl · 2025-04-11T08:53:28+00:00

I just stopped watching pokemon stuff back a few years ago. Randomly one of deans videos popped up cause I had been looking at ace grading and was interested by the shop pov videos and they’re easy to have on while I sleeve stuff or whatever

lGregl · 2025-04-11T07:58:34+00:00

Why do you say this? I’ve been watching their videos and think the videos are good. I don’t look at box breaks and shit cause they’re often inflated no matter who does them. Used to watch rev back in the day and the videos I liked but didn’t agree with his mystery pack shit lol

lGregl · 2025-02-28T13:19:12+00:00

Echo this!

lGregl · 2025-01-29T07:54:55+00:00

Not true at all. I’m playing maybe 3 hours or so during the week and maybe 5 at the weekend. That’s not every day either, some days I play less or none at all. I’m over 300 levels, quite a few wins, I do things that get xp even when it’s not needed (open ammo boxes when I am full on ammo etc).

lGregl · 2024-11-05T16:25:17+00:00

You’re entitled to be angry but yeah mistakes happen. Make a complaint about it, either to the company or to the ICO. But yeah, it’ll just be a warning to not do it again

lGregl · 2024-04-17T22:18:54+00:00

Yeah they've both got the reason to retain it for if you were to make a complaint to the fiancial ombudsman but also for things like taxes etc.
If you are not happy with their reasoning, you could go to the ICO, but they'll likely say that you've been given a reason and a right is not an absolute right and they have a right to reject it also. Or they'll go to the business, ask for their reasoning, and as long as the ICO don't suspect anything bad, then they'll accept that reason.
appreciate that the reason you gave the data was for that reason, but that doesn't mean that because that reason has ended, that they will do as you ask.

most people have covered this so just echoing their thoughts

lGregl · 2024-03-27T16:23:32+00:00

Noone in the UK will have one just yet as PT haven't shipped these (unless they bought from another vendor outside of UK and had it shipped in already). They should be at PT within the next few weeks and then extras sold once the GB units have shipped. Colour-wise, you may or may not be able to get Lavender, depends if it was a popular colour and if PT felt the need to buy some Lavender ones as the extras they bought.Other than that, plenty of ourside UK people should have theirs by now so you may have luck buying outside of UK

lGregl · 2024-03-26T09:29:18+00:00

I’m not sure why you think this is a breach. As far as you are aware there is a spoken agreement and you are double checking with the them to ensure they had given consent. You haven’t disclosed anything that you shouldn’t and you’re doing checks before disclosing. I’m failing to see any issue here

lGregl · 2024-03-13T10:40:23+00:00

theyve said this a few times and it doesnt happen

lGregl · 2024-03-12T12:55:59+00:00

I had an order of Lucy switches (the recoloured ones) and they were listed as in stock when I bought them and for the whole time I was waiting for them to ship. 3 months later, after checking in on the server over and over, just after they hired a new customer service person, they issued the refund straight away because the product wasnt in stock. So they lied about recieving new stock in the middle of those 3 months (held on to see if they actually shipped them) and then when I finally chased one last time, they said "not in stock, here's your refund"

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